Brick Cap mushroom. This is an edible mushroom, often eaten in the United States and Japan, which is easily confused with poisonous varieties, so special care should be taken.
Brick Cap mushroom. This is an edible mushroom, often eaten in the United States and Japan, which is easily confused with poisonous varieties, so special care should be taken.
Air potato. An intrusive, but one of the most widely consumed varieties of yam cultivated in the Pacific Islands, Asia and West Africa. Uncultivated versions may be bitter and even poisonous (as in Florida).
This cheese used to be made at the Abbaye d'Igny but the nuns turned to making chocolates called bouchons de Champagne, biscuits and so on. The cheese was much more work and was a wheel of mild, semisoft cheese made with cow’s milk. It had a washed rind and was made with raw milk, containing 40-45% fat (dry). The curds werere uncooked and pressed and it weighed 1.3 kg (2½ lb).
This offers protection to the name of food or wine so that it may only be made in that area. An example is "agneau de Sisteron' which may only be produced within a 100 km radius of Sisteron.
